The Hellenic Community of Vancouver is British Columbia’s largest Greek community. Established in 1927 it has served as a spiritual, cultural and social gathering place for all Greeks of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
The beautiful, ultra-modern city of Vancouver – the third largest in Canada after Toronto and Montreal – has been selected to host the Winter Olympics in February 2010. The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay will make its historic 45,000-kilometre journey across Canada from coast to coast to coast, ending in Vancouver with the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron on February 12, 2010.
The Coordinator for the World Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE)’s Canada region, Costas Menegakis, has chosen Vancouver for the 2nd Regular Meeting of the Region’s Coordinating Committee.
(source: voice of greece)
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